I adhere to a diet which baffles me why it is so hard for others to follow.
Nothing is perfect, but my diet mimics an intermittent diet, but my first rule is I never wish to feel deprived.
I am addicted to sugar but when once tested for pre-diabetes all foods seemed to be a gun pointed, as I am too cowardly to endure the real diabetes. I was stunned into checking sugar and carbo %'s in everything I ate. But foremost to this one sentence diet, is no eating till 5:00 P.M., upped recently to try for 6:00 P.M.
My "cheating" includes having coffee once or twice a day with plain unsweetened almond milk, and a 1/2 inch of something like a cookie.
On scouts honor, I do not at all have any hunger urgencies till I start to eat real food after 5:00 P.M.
True my temperament does favor chicken and fish menus and love of vegie salads, and almost any fruit. I was 185 when I decided to fight the pre- diabetic diagnosis and after about two months of the aforementioned diet I eased comfortably to 145.
I now eat 3 times after dinner (5-6 P.M.) till about 9:00, loading up after my main dinner meal, on pistachios, eggs, popcorn, pizza, pieces of soda bread with Steevia (instead of sugar).
I have remained at 150 - 155 for 5 years. I was less guarded about measuring carbs once my pre-diabetes abated, and everyone thought I was too skinny.
The intermittent diet I follow guarantees I do not put on excess weight. The intermittent diet is scientifically said to have more potency if the 4 hour of fasting occurred earlier from the morning and . then wait the 16 hours for next feed-up.........this I cannot do . Scientific journals found that the intermittent diet is effective against promoting inflammatory conditions and may strengthen the immune system, but they did not know why.......Very recently scientific studies suggested that the intermittent diet may work because during the gap of no food, the body is deprived of specific amino acids groupings, and this time span deprivation of these molecules triggers/ strengthens "excellent" healthy conditions.
A different intermittent fasting diet consisting of fasting for 3 days on and off is which is suggested to be a more effective diet , but I would only attempt this fasting diet if my life depended on it, as I have no discipline to join such a torturous challenge.
Again. any new diets may be hard to adhere to because so many decisions regarding selection, when to eat, what to eat, what to avoid, challenge all the mental processes which were most efficient to accommodate a "feeling" of well being Any new will probably continuously feud with self-control.
Except for limiting sugar and never binging on fabulous bread, In my one sentence diet, I eat all I wish from 5- 10 P.M. focusing on the few "fun" products which are not factory refined to my heart's content. This habitual diet routine does not summon any special challenges except making me more self conscious when my hotel reservations includes a free "gala" breakfast.
